Saturday, August 27, 2005

"CALCUTTA -- The government of a state in India has come up with a wild
idea to control the menace of bandits who are becoming active again in
the country's heartland.
The government of Uttar Pradesh plans to unleash dozens of
lions in the forested ravines to flush out the bandits from their
hide-outs."

Monday, August 22, 2005

***"Workaholic" is an anti-concept. Still, looking beyond its derisive and negative connotations this is quite an amusing piece that flies in the face of social-democratic illusions.

"GOOD news for aspiring high achievers and
borderline workaholics: you may be remiss in friendships and asleep at
family gatherings, but you will be a big hit in the bedroom.

Men who have difficulties balancing career and home life scored
highest in a study of their wives’ or girlfriends’ sexual satisfaction,
unveiled last week at the annual gathering of the American
Psychological Association.

The
research challenges the popular notion that spouses of busy men are
typically desperate housewives living lonely, unfulfilled lives. They
may not see their husbands as much as they like, but when they do,
sparks fly."

"SCOTLAND YARD believes it has thwarted an
Al-Qaeda gas attack aimed at ministers and MPs in parliament. The plot,
hatched last year, is understood to have been discovered in coded
e-mails on computers seized from terror suspects in Britain and
Pakistan."...“They were planning to use chemicals, a dirty bomb and sarin gas. They looked at all sorts of ways of delivering it.”